experiential learning

Education reform is a hot topic in Chile. Students and concerned citizens have actively protested for education reform for three years and show no signs of relenting.

Lizzie Jenkins, a student in BYU’s Department of Communications, recently had the chance to complete an internship through the department’s New York Internship program. Throughout the course of the internship, she gained valuable skills in the communications industry that have helped set the groundwork for her career.

Journalism and public relations students in the Communications program are having a once-in-a-lifetime experience, rubbing shoulders with legislators and award-winning journalists as they report on the 2014 general session of the Utah legislature. It’s all part of an initiative that has been in the works for several years, one that would offer students a bundle of reporting and media classes along with the opportunity to cover the current legislative session and other news around Salt Lake City.

by Peter Rosen

Tonight at 6:00 p.m. the HBLL film series will play the documentary “I Am Not My Body” which was produced last year by Professor Robert Walz and his Communications 486 class.